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Kailee Pedersen

@kaileepedersen.bsky.social

THE MINIMALIST (St. Martin's '26) PASTORALE (Burnside Review '25) SACRIFICIAL ANIMALS (St. Martin’s + Titan '24) writer/opera singer/swe | 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇳 adoptee | she/her rep: Paul Lucas @ Regal Hoffmann kaileepedersen.com

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Kailee Pedersen@kaileepedersen.bsky.social · last wk.

Can't wait for tomorrow! Come stop by and hear two adoptees 🥚 talk all things music, adoption experiences, and the price of art 🙂🎶🩸

Tony Corsentino@notalegalrecord.net · 2w ago

please let your Boston-area friends and adoptee friends know this is happening next week! @kaileepedersen.bsky.social’s new book is a great read, creepy as hell, rich with all kinds of themes touching on music & identity & #adoption and much more—and I have the honor of talking about it with her.

Text of flyer: Author Talk Kailee Pedersen Thursday, Sept. 24 7:00-8:30pm Join author Kailee Pedersen for a conversation about her new novel The Minimalist, joined by Winchester librarian Tony Corsentino. In this lively and wide-ranging discussion, they will explore the ways that the author's experience as an intercountry adoptee from China informs her creative outlook. For fans of Tar and The Piano Teacher, this gruesome and unsettling psychological drama is a darkly lucid literary portrait of a classical composer's descent into madness. THE MINIMALIST KAILEE A NOVEL PEDERSEN Winchester PUBLIC LIBRARY
Kailee Pedersen@kaileepedersen.bsky.social · last wk.

Catch me and the incredible pianist Quin Facey performing haunted opera at the Spooktastic Book Fair this Saturday at 5pm! I'm so excited to share our 25-minute program of ghosts, mortality, Gothic obsession, and bloodshed with listeners. 👻🎶🩸

Spooktastic Book Fair - Haunted Opera. Saturday, September 26 at 5pm. Digital Program. Featuring Kailee Pedersen, soprano, and Quinlan Facey, piano. Program. Ned Rorem (1923-2022). Emily's Goodbye Aria from OUR TOWN. Emily, the ghost of a young woman who died in childbirth, grieves her former life. Samuel Barber (1910-1981). Selections from VANESSA. "Must the winter come so soon". Erika laments the season's change, which has cast a chilling spell over the dilapidated manor house. "Do not utter a word". Vanessa, Erika's aunt, has waited twenty years for the arrival of her former lover Anatol. Now that he appears to have returned, her delusional obsession with him is on full display. Bernard Hermann (1911-1975). Selections from WUTHERING HEIGHTS. "I have dreamt". Cathy dreams of the moors at Wuthering Heights. "Open the window". Dying, Cathy pleads to see the moors one last time. She vows to Heathcliff that she will never let him go. Richard Strauss (1864-1949). "Ah, ich habe deinen Mund geküsst, Jochanaan..." ("Ah, I have kissed your mouth, Jochanaan..." from SALOME. Having convinced Herod to execute and decapitate John the Baptist (Jochanaan), Salome ecstatically kisses the severed head, reveling in the bloodshed. Bios of Kailee Pedersen and Quinlan Facey.
Kailee Pedersen@kaileepedersen.bsky.social · 2w ago

Closing out the year with some incredible events in Massachusetts & NYC, including opera performances at the Spooktastic Book Fair & the New York Public Library! Thank you to the venues and organizers for having me, I'm so excited to chat about THE MINIMALIST and share haunted opera with folks 😊🎶🩸

Tony Corsentino@notalegalrecord.net · 4w ago

so, to summarize: posts in the #adoptees of Bluesky feed come from people who have survived adoption, displacement, severance; and only adoption-focused posts that include certain hashtags or symbols go into the feed.

Tony Corsentino@notalegalrecord.net · 4w ago

Adoptees are welcome to post to the feed, and they certainly don’t need to follow me! Anyone interested in posting to the feed just needs to let me know. And to get a post into the feed you need to include a hashtag like #adoption #adoptees #adopteesky or the 🥚 emoji.

Neil Ottenstein@nottenst.bsky.social · 4w ago

I also listened to "Huangdi" by @kaileepedersen.bsky.social read by @hollygodarkly.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy from @uncannymagazine.bsky.social 72 podcast. We will want to remember this when Best Poem nomination time comes around. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/huan...

Huangdi - Uncanny Magazine

She carries jasmine in her hair, the empire in her hands. Even now she folds up her youth, until the magnolias stop bleeding in the imperial gardens. Death follows in its place, a loyal hound. When fa...

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Jamedi@jamreads.com · last mo.

The Minimalist, by @kaileepedersen.bsky.social (pub by @stmartinspress.bsky.social) is an utterly brilliant novel, a deeply personal piece that dissects its main character to weave an equally gorgeous and unsettling book. Not easy to capture in words. Full thoughts: jamreads.com/reviews/the-... 💙📚

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Kailee Pedersen@kaileepedersen.bsky.social · last mo.

I wrote “Huangdi” my freshman year of college and it’s finally out in the world! Thank you to @uncannymagazine.bsky.social for publishing a poem I’ve believed in for 12 years 🤗🥰

Uncanny Magazine@uncannymagazine.bsky.social · last mo.

Uncanny Magazine Podcast 72A features “Horse Boy” by Natalia Theodoridou, as read by Matt Peters; “Huangdi” by Kailee Pedersen, as read by Erika Ensign; “Being a Brief History of It’s Storytime with Wil Wheaton” by Wil Wheaton, as read by Wil Wheaton! buff.ly/eIF2wQp

The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 72, "Fluid" by Galen Dara: A femme-coded being stares at us with light and dark blue-green skin and red lips. A read heart-shaped organ is in front of her chest with white tendrils and green sprouts and roots with drops of red and a couple of many-red-petaled flowers. Surrounding her are splashes ofyellow, yellow-green, orange, pink, and green-blue and large similar many-red-petaled flowers. In white text is the "Uncanny" banner, "September/October 2026," Issue Seventy-Two," and the artist, writer, essayist, poets, and Uncanny staff credits.